Recent content by TGT411

Yep. Saves the company over $5M per year.

Many Group partner positions were eliminated. AP, HR, PM, and VM.

How many Targets sell liquor? Quite a few. How many have a dedicated liquor store with separate entrance? <1%

Anyone who has seen how those things are made knows exactly why they make your stomach feel so bad. The first two ingredients are worse-than-Crisco oil and spray-on pan liner. Ingredient number three? Circular frozen "dough" that would work as well as a beer bottle in a bar fight.

It used to be really good. Almost any item (iPads, PlayStation, etc. excluded) is cost + 10% for employees. I'm not sure if it's the same still.

Not the same thing. If you use discounts to purchase an item at $4, and then knowingly return the item without a receipt and get $5 back, you have fraudulently obtained $1. I just termed a team member for doing this on a regular basis last week.

If you do this as a team member and are found out, you will be terminated. It's return fraud.

I'm old enough to remember the application AP used before we switched to TCM in 2009. It was a lot like a system I used at another retailer called LPMS. Despite LPMS being very old and not very attractive, it works pretty much 100% of the time as intended with lightning speed. That other...

Oh it definitely is. TCM is also not "built from scratch" per se. My wording definitely suggested that. However, we do spend a lot to have these programs customized and branded for us, and then we largely service them in house unless something major happens.

This is correct. It is not possible to be sworn law enforcement and AP. Being in the military is fine, even Military Police. There are other retailers that hire off duty cops to be their LP/Security. Maybe look into that.

I've always felt that Target wasted a lot of money and resources on developing, deploying, and maintaining custom-built applications like myTime and TCM that could easily be done with more mainstream industry solutions.

No. A lot of what you read is very location dependent. Target is a lot stricter on the directives than they used to be, but my district is still very external and internal focused. No TPS in my district is being told to stand at the door all day and pass out carts or ads.

Percentages also depend on your store metrics. Some stores that perform poorly will only see their DEOs get 3% raises

The way this is rolling out makes me think that there was probably a great deal of input by field HR leaders as to which stores would get cut first. The lowest volume store in our district isn't losing their ETL and it likely has to do with how many major HR issues they have all the time...

A store in my district is losing their ETL-HR. As a result, they'll only have an STL, ETL-Log, and ETL-SF/GE. They already have an APTL. They currently have about 6 or 7 TLs with three of those being seniors. Volume is about $35M and risk level is low. I think this is the direction Target is...